Re: Generated files.

2000-09-12 Thread John Carter
s a direct insult to the eye. A highly visible mark that here was a file that should have been "cvs add"ed but wasn't. If there are hundreds of generated files like executables lying around, then one loses the impact. Is there any mechanism to extend cvsignore to match questionable files an

Re: Generated files.

2000-09-12 Thread Rich Salz
Is there any mechanism to extend cvsignore to match questionable files and then use something like the "file" command to peek inside them to decide whether to ignore them or not? This seems doable. A quick hack would be to change ign_name to take a new parameter: int am_server Change

Re: Generated files

2000-09-12 Thread Cameron, Steve
John Carter wrote: Alas, this is a bit of a problem. In that there are hundreds of the @##$! things. And as I have found out, people tend to get a bit lax about booking files in. (I found out the hard way, by moving from RCS to CVS and finding nothing worked. People had been too lazy /